Table of Contents

Volume 33, Number 18 · November 20, 1986

Alfred Brendel, The Noble Liszt

Noel Annan, In Bed with the Victorians

The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Vol. II: The Tender Passion by Peter Gay

Stanley Hoffmann, An Icelandic Saga

Julian Barnes, How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Baudelaire!

Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude translated and edited by Rosemary Lloyd

Norman Davies, The Survivor's Voice

Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Hanna Krall, translated by Joanna Stasinska, by Lawrence Weschler

Robert M. Adams, The Nose Knows

The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, translated by John E. Woods

E.J. Hobsbawm, Murderous Colombia

Human Rights in Colombia as President Barco Begins An Americas Watch Report

Pasado y presente de la Violencia en Colombia edited by Gonzalo Sanchez, edited by Ricardo Peñaranda

Cese el fuego: Una historia politica de las FARC by Jacobo Arenas

Bandoleros, gamonales y campesinos: el caso de la Violencia en Colombia by Gonzalo Sanchez, by Donny Meertens

The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl

Narcotrafico imperio de la cocaina by Mario Arango, by Jorge Child

Historia de una traición by Laura Restrepo, with the assistance of Camilo Gonzalez

La Guerra por la paz by Enrique Santos Calderon, prologue by Gabriel García Márquez

Colonización, coca y guerrilla by Jaime Jaramillo, by Leonidas Mora, by Fernando Cubides

La paz, la violencia: testigos de excepción. Hechos ye testimonios sobre 40 años de violencia y paz que vuelven a ser hoy de palpitante actualidad by Arturo Alape

Estado y subversión en Colombia: La violencia en el Quindío Años 50 by Carlos Miguel Ortiz Sarmiento

Los años del tropel: Relatos de la violencia by Alfredo Molano

Jonathan Lieberson, The Unimportance of Being Oscar

Raymond Carr, The Don Quixote of Diplomacy

The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline by J.H. Elliott

Helen Vendler, The Hunting of Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self by Milton J. Bates

Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth by George Lensing

Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879–1923 by Joan Richardson

T.H. Breen, Right Man, Wrong Place

The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580–1631) edited by Philip L. Barbour

Peter Bauer, Anything Goes?

Emerging from Poverty: The Economics That Really Matters by Gerald M. Meier

Rudolf Peierls, Conservative Revolutionary

The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science by J.L. Heilbron


Letters

Patricia McBroom, Andrew Hacker, Sisterhood Is Powerless
Charles Mohr, Alfred Kazin, Covering Washington
Leszek Kolakowski, Theodore H. Draper, The Fate of Poland
Paul Roazen, The Freud Archives
Alfred J. Rieber, The Fate of Poland
Carl Gershman, Murray Kempton, Help for 'La Prensa'
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Leonard Thompson, Boers and Progressives



Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. He also wrote Chaos and Violence.

Helen Vendler's recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published later this year. (March 2009)


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